Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2-3

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2 3 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:

-Beasts, Birds, & Bugs
-Seasons & Celebrations
-Stuff & Nonsense
-Step Outside
-Poems in Song
-A World of Sights & Sounds

Included are poems by such well-known poets as Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, and Pat Mora.

The first follow-up activity emulates the format students are likely to encounter on standardized language arts tests.

Item content covers:

-literal comprehension
-sequence
-word meaning
-context clues & inferences
-main idea and details

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.